The Woods - commentry.

This is our running commentary for our film 'The Woods'. In this we talk about our production, institution (MJC) and how we linked up with JAK Productions to create a synergy and allowed us to get the money to be able to produce and distribute our film. We talk about the variation of shots and say which is our favourites. We also tell you about the special effects we use and how each shot makes the audience feel (mostly feel scared) and how it conforms to usual Horror films.

Evaluation 5.

 

We have added notes to our final film 'The Woods' to show people what the effect was meant to create within the audience and tell them how it conforms to
horror films. We also say which horror films some of our shots links to and how the mise-en-scene, camera work and editing all links into certain films (where we got some ideas from).

Evaluation 6 - Equipment.

The picture we have taken to the side is of the equipment we have used throughout our production. We have used Kodak 900 to enable us to take the underwater shoot, this was a great special effect that we used within our film as people are constantly amazed with how we filmed it and said it was one of the main best parts of our film as it created suspense with the diagetic sound that the movement of the water created and made a good effect on the audince. We also used Cannon 9000, this was a great feature in our film becasue it mean we were able to get the out of focus shot turning into focus for our establishing shot, it also meant we were able to focus on the water when we filmed the tap in the bathroom. This meant it showed our techniques with the camera and allowed us to create a better effect within the audince and make them feel like they are watching something proffesional. We also used the phone that i am holding in the picture. This allowed us to create video diaries throughout the film which is a good marketing campaign becasue it allows our audince to see what we are doing and find out certain bits of the film without ruining what happens. It also gives of some enigmas as we didn't show what the antagonmist fully looked like in our diary which made our audince intruged and want to watch it even more.

Evaluation 7 Preliminary task compared to Final film.

Preliminary task compared to my final piece "The Woods"

 

When we were first set to do our preliminary task, i did not know much about different types of shots and editing processes however, we were told to include the 180 degree rule, match on action, shot reverse shot. These are all the key shots to make your film flow naturally and keep the audience intreuged into watching the film. We included close ups, extreme close ups, over shoulder shot, low angle shot and high angle shot all in our preliminary task. When we showed two people talking in our preliminary task we made sure we stuck to the 180 degree rule and shot reverse shot. This made sure the characters did not look like they are talking to themselves and makes it seem professional. We found match on action quite difficult when we were filming our  preliminary task as we found it hard to make sure we made the character stay in the same position to make sure the shot flowed and didn't jump from one to the other. This meant we had to take

a few shots at once to make sure we chose the best ones when we came to editing all the different shots. We weren't too sure at first how to work the editing software however we quickly were able to get used to it and make sure we use it to the best of our ability.  For our final film 'The Woods' we were able to use the techniques we had learned from our preliminary task and other techniques that we had researched to enable our film to be the best that we could do. We added more shots like, high angle, POV shot, underwater shot, low angle shot, close ups and many more. This made our film look very professional and allowed our film to flow well. Although we did not get a chance to use the 180 degree rule and shot reverse shot as we focused on only having one character the whole way through the opening two minutes apart from the end where the antagonist come in; this meant we were unable to show this skill through a conversation that we would on had if we put another character in and had a script in the film. When it came to editing our final film, we found it a lot easier than we did when we were filming our preliminary task, this is because we had researched different techniques that you can use on Adobe to make our work as good as we can make it. The diegetic and non-diegetic sound that we used in our final film also made the shots look a lot better as they linked into one another and made the shots seem more extreme than they would without the sound or music in the background. We have also used match on action in our final film, although we were able to do it better from our preliminary task. We did this by making sure we made the camera very steady and making sure we kept the character I the same place and position so it flows and links the shots together well.